I haven't messed with it myself as of yet, but I will in the next couple days to try and help you out, but here is what I know as of right now: a. From what I understand that is exactly how VPN works. I believe I read that you can even choose to route all your internet traffic through the VPN as wel...

I figured I should also provide my scripts as none are really available for VirtualBox. This is my script to make VMs: #!/bin/bash# #Name of file: makevm #Test if a process is currently running. # This script will create a VM with 1G of Memory and a 10GB Hard Drive with the same name as the VM. this...

No problem! glad i could help :-)

As raw disk access as we previously discussed provides too much risk to our precious media, and NFS seems to cause our performance to take a hit, the solution is to use VirtualBox's "shared folder" functionality. when you use this with a Windows Guest, it shows up as a Samba Share. When yo...

Ok, for those who are interested, I did a bit of testing as far as the direct testing vs. NFS was concerned: I finally got the server all set up in a Virtualbox VM, accessing the data on the host through NFS. I did see a marked decline in access speed when browsing in PS3MediaServer (it was taking a...

I'm not sure, if you don't see any performance issues, then there's probably no reason to mess with it. Now I'm using Virtualbox, since my CPU doesn't support virtualization, so my experience is slightly different, but the the two things I'd been toying with were: 1. Virtualbox allows raw access to ...

So to those of you using media servers in Virtual Machines (Particularly Ian), how do you have your VM access your data partition? I know the guide mentions using NFS, but has anyone messed with raw disk access? and if so with what results? To Ian: what made you choose NFS instead of messing with di...

So here is the couple tips I could think of: This is what Ian was referring to: Linux Users and Samba Users are not the same. to make sure that you have samba users set up correctly you need to in Webmin: 1. "Convert UNIX Users to Samba Users." 2. Edit the Samba Users and give them a passw...

Don't worry about questions, the fun of linux is discovery! When I was living out in the boonies, we had WDSL, and they didn't charge us anything extra for a static IP, so I just went that route, but we just moved into the city and have to deal with the dreaded Time Warner Cable :crazy: , So now I'm...

Hey, I've used your site many times since I've had my server (every re-roll I come back for reference). It's really a wonderfully comprehensive guide. I see a lot of people wondering about the "auth" file. its location seems to have changed since the original writing. the new location is &...